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A statement implicit whether Rural Medical Practitioners (RMPs) and Paramedical Practitioners (PMPs) should beryllium fixed basal grooming and certification to fortify agrarian healthcare, played retired successful the Telangana Legislative Council during Question Hour connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) with the Health Minister, C Damodar Raja Narasimha, reiterating that existing Court orders forestall immoderate specified programme from moving forward.
After getting to cognize of the debate, members of the aesculapian fraternity said they opposed the idea, arguing that Telangana already produces capable qualified doctors and that certifying these unqualified aesculapian practitioners would lone institutionalise quackery.
Raising the contented successful the Council, Takkallapalli Ravinder Rao of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) said that inadequate entree to affordable and reliable healthcare successful agrarian and semi-urban areas was forcing mediocre and susceptible patients to beryllium connected costly backstage hospitals. “Government facilities continued to look shortages of doctors, medicines and basal infrastructure, eroding nationalist spot successful superior wellness centres and sub-centres,” helium said.
Mr. Ravinder Rao recalled that during the agreed Andhra Pradesh period, respective authorities orders were issued for structured grooming for RMPs and PMPs truthful that they could relation arsenic first-contact healthcare providers astatine the grassroots level. Responding successful the House, the Health Minister said the authorities was bound by ineligible constraints. Tracing the past of the issue, helium said the authorities orders were issued successful 2008, 2009 and again successful 2014 to bid RMPs and PMPs, but these initiatives ran into ineligible challenges aft petitions were filed by the Indian Medical Association, Telangana State subdivision and the Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA).
“The Telangana High Court has restrained the State from conducting grooming oregon issuing certification to RMPs and PMPs to practise allopathic medicine, and the authorities was duty-bound to comply with judicial directions,” the Minister added. At the aforesaid time, the Minister said the contented would beryllium examined from a ineligible standpoint to find what was permissible wrong the existing framework.
Speaking to The Hindu, elder doctors said certifying RMPs and PMPs was neither indispensable nor safe. G. Srinivas, Vice-Chairman of the Telangana Medical Council (TGMC), said that the concern from 2008 to present had changed significantly, with Telangana present having astir 65 aesculapian colleges crossed the authorities and backstage sectors. “There is nary request to legitimise unqualified practitioners. The absorption should beryllium connected strengthening the nationalist healthcare strategy by filling vacancies and improving infrastructure astatine superior wellness centres, sub-centres and authorities hospitals,” helium said.
Dr. Kiran Madala, subordinate of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Telangana State branch’s Committee connected Action and Anti-Quackery, said that adjacent constricted certification for RMPs and PMPs could pb to superior diligent information risks. The State has a ample excavation of qualified doctors waiting for employment. The solution is successful recruiting them into the nationalist strategy connected a regular oregon contractual basis. Allowing unqualified practitioners to practise, adjacent astatine a basal level, often goes beyond archetypal assistance successful reality,” helium said, informing that galore already administered antibiotics, steroids and carried retired procedures without oversight.
